COME SEE THE PARADISE

Available From: 01/01/1950
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Synopsis:

It is the late 1930s. Jack McGurn (Dennis Quaid) is a union organizer in New York who, after being involved in an inadvisable bombing of a scab shop, flees the law and settles in Los Angeles. He is given a job as a projectionist in L.A.'s Little Tokyo area by Hiroshi Kawamura (Sab Shimono) and falls in love with Horishi's daughter, Lily (Tamlyn Tomita). The two want to get married, but "mixed-race" marriages are against the law in California. So, the couple move to Seattle, where they can legally marry. They settle there, and soon after, they have a daughter. However, Jack returns to unionizing, and this places a strain on his marriage. Lily leaves him, returning to Los Angeles with their daughter. Unfortunately, World War II breaks out soon afterwards, and the entire Kawamura family is a victim of a new, paranoid decree: all Japanese immigrants and Americans of Japanese descent in California are suspected of being potential traitors, so they are rounded up and forced to live in internment camps as prisoners of war. Jack has been drafted into the Army, but goes AWOL when he learns of the decree and returns to California to attempt to find his family.

Details

Director(s):
Alan Parker
Runtime:
133
Production Year:
1991
Distributor:
20th Century Fox
Cast:
Robert F. Colesberry, Shizuko Hoshi, Dennis Quaid, Saachiko, Sab Shimono, Tamlyn Tomita